Meet My Dedication

The band and I headed back towards all the buses, where I saw a drunken Zakk hitting on Tay Jardine from We Are The In Crowd. I knew he had done some ink work on her arm, a few years back, and there he was trying to get her to do more work with him.
"Give it a rest, Zakk. She's obviously not interested," I called over. He looked at me and gave me a sloppy smile. That also gave Tay a chance to walk away from him, which she smiled and mouthed a, "thank you," to me. I waved to her in return.
"Sup Mikey... So you found your rock star guy?" He shook hands with Austin, who pulled me in closer to him. Was that jealousy I saw in his eyes, or concern?
"Austin, and yes, she did. We're kind of busy, Ross, so of you'll excuse us, we'll be on our way." He seemed really annoyed with Zakk, and I guess he knew him.
"Don't get snippy with me, Carlile, I was just making sure she was doing okay since she ran off from our group earlier."
I was about to say that I was fine, and didn't need a babysitter when Austin and I started walking away from a now pissed off Zakk.
"What was that about?" I looked up at him as we continued for his bus. "Bad blood between you two?"
"You could say that. This isn't the first Warped Tour that he and I have been on together." His tone was sharp, short, but I was too curious to let it go.
"What happened?"
"I'll tell you later." And that was the end of it.
"Okay," I knew better than to pry. I'd just ask him at the party after all the excitement of the day was over with.

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I sat on the main couch, inside the bus flipping through the channels with Alan, while Austin took his turn in the shower. I'd always liked Alan, he and I had a lot in common, lie our love for Tim Burton films and cats and cupcakes. He had already taken his shower and we were debating on what to watch when he shook his wet hair all over me, stealing the remote from me.
"Hey! Give it back, Alan!" I started laughing, to where my stomach hurt. He just held it away from me, with his long arms.
"Not a chance, Mikey, the remote is mine!" He laughed maniacally and held me back. I tried to fight him off, but it was no use. He was much stronger than he appeared.
"No fair!" I jumped on him, tackling him to the ground. I hadn't had this much fun in years, it felt good. "We already watched your show, not it's my turn!"
He pinned me down and started trying to tickle my sides, but got confused when I wasn't squirming like a usual person.
"What the hell, are you broken? Does your tickle button not activate or something? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?!" He tried my underarms, my sides, and even my neck. I was only ticklish in one spot he didn't try, and that made me laugh.
"I'm just not ticklish, Alan."
"Woah! Do I need to give you guys some privacy, or are you making a move on my date, Alan?" Austin came out from the bathroom, with no shirt and drying his hair with his towel.
I couldn't help but stare at him, especially with all the ink on his torso. I'll admit, he had one of the best bodies I'd seen, and I had to stop my self from squealing and making it noticeable that I was fangirling over his body.
I'm pretty sure he caught me staring when he winked at me. My face turned a deep red and I pushed Alan off of me, "HA, I win!" I grinned and did a mini win-dance. Alan responded with pushing me back on the couch.
He gave me back the remote and I flipped it to BBC America, since Doctor Who was on. We sat in silence for a few minutes until Alan looked at me and poked my cheek, "you like Austin. I can tell by the way you look at him. He's a good guy, and my best friend."
I just sort of stared at Alan for a moment or two, "I admire Austin as a person and a musician. He's a wonderful man, and any girl would be lucky to be shown this much attention to."
"Mikey..." Alan raised his eyebrow at me, and we both knew how I really felt about Austin.
"Okay, fine, yes, I really do like Austin. In my eyes, he's kind of a perfect human being. Happy?" I sighed and leaned my head back against the couch.
"Very," the self-awarding grin Alan had put on made me kick him. "Ouch!"

Austin came out, wearing a black t-shirt and black skinny jeans. He still looked too cute to be real, and I repeatedly had to pinch myself to remind me that this was not a dream.
"You guys ready to go?"
"Always!" Alan jumped up off the couch and skipped off of the bus, leaving Austin and I.
"Uh, what exactly am I going to be doing while you're signing autographs and taking pictures and stuff?" Not that I wasn't perfectly fine with sitting in the background, I just wanted to know.
"You can sit next to me, if you'd like." He smiled down at me and offered me a hand up off the couch, I took it and we made our way to the merch tent.
I took a seat next to him, and started to look at the crowd in front of us. I couldn't believe that I hadn't seen Milly, Gavin, or even Woody since earlier today. The gates were going to close in an hour and a half, and no one even bothered to text me. Then again, I had been so preoccupied with Austin and my own adventures, I forgot that they were probably having some of their own. Besides, my sister was a big girl, and she had Gavin with her, so I know they'd be safe and hopefully not getting arrested for public indecency (fucking somewhere they thought no one would notice). I came back out of my real world to notice Austin had asked me something,
"Huh? What? Sorry, I kind of zoned out for a minute." I smiled apologetically.
"It's cool, I asked if you wanted something to drink before we got to the tent. A Monster or beer or something?" We had come up to one of the food vendors and Austin had gotten himself a Monster.
I reached into my back pocket for some cash, but Austin had rejected for me to pay for my own drink, "I can get it, it's not a problem."
"We're still on a date, and the guy always pays for the drinks. So what'll it be?" He flashed his smile at me and I thought my heart skipped a beat.
"Bud Light's fine with me." I knew I shouldn't, but I wasn't exactly a light weight, and a beer here and there wasn't going to kill me.
He paid for my beer and we continued walking towards the tent, without being mobbed by everyone and their cousin. I took my seat behind Austin and Phil, instead of next to them. I really didn't want to intrude, especially on their fans. I sipped my beer and continued scanning the crowd. I still couldn't find Milly, so I just gave up.

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The meet and greet didn't take very long, only an hour or so, and I was getting tired. I needed a pick me up or a nap or something. Austin must have sensed it too, so he snaked his arm through mine and he started skipping, making me have to in order to keep up with him, to one last show for the night: A Day To Remember.
I remembered meeting Jeremy this morning with Zakk, and now I got to see him preform too!
"I realized you really didn't get to experience Warped Tour the way you should have." Austin apologized to me. We were in the very back, so I couldn't see much past the sea of people getting ready for the last set of the night. It was like everyone had shown up around this stage as a finale for their evenings as well.
"What do you mean? I couldn't have asked for a better day!" I practically jumped into his arms, and he lifted me up so that we were eye to eye with each other. "You gave me the best day of my life, Austin Carlile. Don't ever forget it." Our noses were touching and it felt like an extremely intimate moment between us.
"Mikey... I don't want to forget it. I had a lot of fun today, and I.."
I couldn't hear the rest of what he had said over the roar of the crowd and Jeremy yelling into his microphone. Austin had set me back down on the ground, but his arms were still around me. All I could hear was the band playing I'm Made Of Wax Larry, What Are You Made Of? and the crowd going wild, singing along.
"You what?" I had to yell into Austin's ear.
"I'll tell you later," he yelled back.
We continued watching the set, singing along, dancing, and trying to keep me from being hoisted up to surf the crowd. We were just having fun, and making our day worth while.
Austin took out his phone and got on instagram, he looked and me and got close to me ear, "take a picture with me!"
"Okay," I got near his face and we took a cute picture of us sticking out our tongues and looking goofy. "We look silly," I giggled and he laughed.
"Of course we do! Can I tag you in it? Do you have instagram?" I nodded and put in my url for him to follow me. "You realize I'm going to stalk you on here now, right?" He smirked and I faked a gasp.
"Oh no, Austin Carlile is following me on instagram, whatever shall I do now?!" I said over dramatically. We laughed even harder as he typed in a caption for our photo.

austincarlile: me and my girl @mikeybrier having a blast at #warped2012 <3

I instantly got the notification and liked the photo, putting my own little heart onto it. It was really sweet of him to put our photo up there, and even I liked the photo of me and him together.
"You're beautiful, Mikey. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise." He smiled down at me and kissed my cheek.
I blushed and stood there in a sort of daze. He kissed me, sort of.
The crowd was thinning out as A Day To Remember's set was ending. Everyone was starting to get into their cars and try to beat out the traffic jam that was waiting to happen. Austin grabbed my hand and swung me onto his back. I wrapped my legs around his waist and let my arms hang around his neck. "So how about that party I told you about earlier, you still want to go?"
I nodded in response and we sped off in the opposite direction of the dispersing crowd. "Onward!" I yelled and pointed in the direction of the buses. We laughed as I started to bounce up and down from his strides.

Notes

Mikey is finally starting to open up! Hooray for character development! I wonder what beef Zakk and Austin have with each other. Hmm....
Tomorrow is Christmas, it's practically here! I'm kind of a Grinch, don't judge me. <3